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Metadata retention laws come into effect today, however almost all Internet Service Providers claim they aren't ready to start collecting and storing the information. They have two years to get up to speed.
Syria, Iraq and tension in the South China sea are on the agenda for talks between Julie Bishop, Marise Payne and their US counterparts. ABC correspondent Michael Vincent says the ministers will also see a Chris Hemsworth movie as a special treat.
Zimbabwe has dropped its case against the US dentist who killed Cecil the lion in July. The country's environment minister says Walter Palmer's paperwork was in order - a review of hunting quotas is now under way.
Here's what's coming up this morning:
08.45am AEDT: RBA deputy governor Phil Lowe is giving a speech and Q&A. We might hear his thoughts on where house prices are headed
09.00am AEDT: Ms Bishop and Ms Payne begin their talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defence Ash Carter in Boston
10.30am AEDT: Peter Garrett's memoir will be officially launched
11.00am AEDT: Malcolm Turnbull, Bill Shorten and Richard Di Natale attend the launch of a National Day of Unity in Parliament
2.00pm AEDT: A Heart Foundation summit looks at why Australia is currently seeing a spike in hospital admissions due to heart failure
2.00pm AEDT: Question Time in the House of Representatives
The vast majority of Australian internet service providers are not ready to start collecting and storing metadata as required under the country's data retention laws which come into effect today.
Terrorism suspects as young as 14 could have their movements restricted by control orders under law changes requested by the NSW Government and agreed to by the federal Attorney-General.
Dutch authorities will unveil a partial reconstruction of the Malaysia Airlines jet that crashed over Ukraine as they deliver their final report at a media briefing in The Netherlands.
Zimbabwe abandons its bid to press charges against the US dentist who killed Cecil the lion, saying his papers "were in order" and he did not know he was committing an offence.
A Senate committee says vulnerable welfare recipients should be allowed to exit a new welfare quarantining trial that is expected to be voted on in Parliament today.
British police say they will no longer stand guard outside London's Ecuadorian embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge in 2012, but will strengthen a "covert plan" to prevent his departure.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was "probably not" in a convoy hit by air strikes near the Syrian border on Sunday, senior Iraqi security officials say.
A significant proportion of the protesters who demonstrated on the weekend against a proposal to build a mosque in Bendigo were members of nationalist group United Patriots Front and had travelled interstate to protest.
Turkey is investigating the Islamic State (IS) group as the prime suspect in two suicide bombings at a peace rally in Ankara that killed 97 people, prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu says.
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